It is a blessed thing when the Lord lays a soul upon your heart and writes intercession within you. You have done well to spread this petition before the throne, for prayer is the slender nerve that moves the muscles of omnipotence. Yet, take heed: if I desire the salvation of anyone, I ought to tell him, as best I can, what his condition is and what the way of salvation is, and how he may find rest. The Book of Remembrance will reveal the value of hidden intercessors, but the Lord uses means; He has ordained that faith cometh by hearing. Have you carried the gospel to these very ears, or has your prayer been a silent whisper in the closet and no more? Go, I beg you, and speak the word of life plainly to this dear one and to those in her company.
But suffer a moment’s searching. The Holy Spirit maketh intercession for the saints, yet His intercession is not in or for the unregenerate. Unless we are the sons of God, we are shut out from that inward groaning which cannot be uttered. Are you yourself in Christ? See to it that you have first looked unto him and been saved, for the way of salvation is so simple that we are ever tempted to pass it by. It is not by works, nor by feelings, nor by long processes; it is a look. “Look unto me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth.” He that believeth on him, on that living Person who loved us and gave himself for us, shall never be ashamed. This salvation is without money and without price. It is God’s salvation, from first to last; he planned it in wisdom, he purchased it with blood, and he applies it by his Spirit. Oh, the love that stoops from the highest heaven, thrusts its arms into the very mire of the pit, and plucks the blackest sinner out to make him blessed forever!
Therefore, let your intercession run alongside your testimony. You cannot bring the horse to drink, but you can lead him to the water. Tell them plainly, “Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners.” Hold up the cross, cry “Ho, everyone that thirsteth,” and leave the issue with God. There is salvation for all manner of sin, forgiveness so full of grace that only God could have conceived it. May these souls, for whom you weep, soon be found saying with joy, “I will rejoice in thy salvation.” Glory be to God for such a rich, free, and eternal deliverance.